In article <678@ima.ISC.COM> bct <bct@its63b.ed.ac.uk> writes:> I was involved with the production of compilers related to the MUSS system.>...It was not advertised to the users that the compilers were not generating>native code, and the linker was doing a little more than linking.

The same technique was used recently by Dave Hansen at Arizona, when his
group realized that the compilers & assemblers both had partial resolvers
which were duplicated in the linker. And that linking was really little
more than a merge-sort.
I tried the same trick and the linker ran faster than the system
linker i was using...
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